1941 * Naval Air Station Atlanta * 1959

Anticipating America´s involvement in a second world war, the government returned to the site of Camp Gordon in October 1940 and over the next seven

months constructed a 400-acre Naval Reserve Aviation Base at the DeKalb County Airport.

Commissioned in March 1941, ...

Naval Air Station Melbourne

This site was the 129-building Naval Air Station constructed at the Melbourne Municipal Airport at the beginning of World War II. It was commissioned as Operational Training Unit No. 2 on October 20, 1942 and closed on February 15, 1946. ...